: : : The professor said, "In Russian, and in many other languages, a double negative intensifies the denial, just as it does in ungrammatical English. But curiously, nowhere, in no language, does a double positive make a negative."
: : : To which, a voice from the back of the lecture hall said, "yeah, sure."

: : 1."a double negative intensifies the denial", could you please give another exmaple of this?

: : And what about this: "I'd take no orders from no kind of man".

: : 2."I got a woman as mean as she can be."
: : I've heard this phrase "as adjective as somebody can be" a lot. What does that phrase mean?